Basil

Basil

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Favorite films

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  • Legally Blonde

    ★★★★

  • Interstellar

    ★★★★★

  • I Saw the TV Glow

    ★★★★½

  • Dinosaur

    ★★★★★

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  • Interstellar

    Interstellar

    ★★★★★

    on my second rewatch ever, almost exactly 3 years later, this film still leaves me awestruck and grasping for words. I feel like it hit even harder this time around, because such an incredibly complex, profound, emotional film often needs more than one viewing to fully digest and process.

    Interstellar is a perfect example of my science fiction is my favorite genre. The film alone has an incredible score, a beautifully written story, masterful world-building, riveting scientific quandries, dynamic characters,…

  • I Saw the TV Glow

    I Saw the TV Glow

    ★★★★½

    on the first watch, this movie gutted me in ways that left me angry (grief-stricken) and critical (disbelieving). I had to sit with it a long while, to recognize that this film hits hardest with members of my community who teeter so painfully on the edge of their selfhood, terrified to leap. to recognize that my rage is not with the ending, but with our world- the midnight realm- and the others it has trapped there.

    My transness is so…

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  • Umma

    Umma

    ★★★★

    y'all have clearly never thought twice about what childhood abuse might do to someone / how that trauma works. This narrative is incredibly well-crafted to reflect breaking an abuse cycle, using some pretty amazing metaphors. It even goes as far as to set itself apart from the VAST majority of media about adults who survived childhood abuse (where said adults are often doomed to repeat it), making sure to create a reality where the outcome is, instead, growth and healing.…

  • The Menu

    The Menu

    ★★★★★

    I SAID at the beginning this was Chef's Table if it was a horror movie and then the scab of a fanboy SAID he watched all the episodes of Chef's Table, god I'm obsessed with this movie

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